What if?

[smaneck]

They closed down your business because it wasn't open for Christmas:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10156637717865497

 

[gord44]

And Grizzly Adams had a beard!

 

[juvenissun]

They closed down your business because it wasn't open for Christmas:

Move.
Or, open.

 

[drstevej]

I am retired, hard to close me down.

 

[smaneck]

Move.
Or, open.

Unfortunately Baha'is often don't have that option. Usually their businesses get expropriated by the government. And they may not have the wherewithal to leave the country. Furthermore, Baha'is are not allowed to work government jobs and are even precluded from attending universities in Iran. The same is not true for Christians, Jews or Zoroastrians there. When Baha'is tried to set up their own online university, the government shut it down and arrested those involved in it:

Recently children as young as 10 have been expelled for being Baha'is:
http://iranpresswatch.org/post/13082/

 

[Ran77]

They closed down your business because it wasn't open for Christmas:

I don't know what I would do, but I sympathize with the people in that position. I know that I think it's wrong to close down anyone's business simply because they don't adhere to the same belief system. Unfortunately, this sort of discrimination happens all over the world and probably always will.

 

[juvenissun]

Unfortunately Baha'is often don't have that option. Usually their businesses get expropriated by the government. And they may not have the wherewithal to leave the country. Furthermore, Baha'is are not allowed to work government jobs and are even precluded from attending universities in Iran. The same is not true for Christians, Jews or Zoroastrians there. When Baha'is tried to set up their own online university, the government shut it down and arrested those involved in it:

Recently children as young as 10 have been expelled for being Baha'is:
http://iranpresswatch.org/post/13082/

Sorry to hear that.
If so, where or what is the hope?

 

[smaneck]

Sorry to hear that.
If so, where or what is the hope?

I'm hoping that with the restoration of relations with Iran there will be more room to address human rights issues such as this. But I also think that the individuals who are behind these persecutions should be brought up to the Haque for crimes against humanity.

 

[juvenissun]

I'm hoping that with the restoration of relations with Iran there will be more room to address human rights issues such as this. But I also think that the individuals who are behind these persecutions should be brought up to the Haque for crimes against humanity.

For people who suffered, this is not a very realistic hope. Is it?
It is not a hope. It is a dream. It is not likely to happen, at least not in their life time.
If so, is there any other hope to hang on?

 

[gord44]

I suppose I would just roll with it and work on Christmas.

 

[Ran77]

I am retired, hard to close me down.

That statement makes it sound like since it doesn't affect you that you don't care.

 

[smaneck]

That statement makes it sound like since it doesn't affect you that you don't care.

And there are some who think there is a war on Christmas if Starbucks leaves the snowmen off their green and red coffee cups.

 

[Aelred of Rievaulx]

They closed down your business because it wasn't open for Christmas:

I work in retail. I hate everything about Christmas and how it's celebrated in the new consumer-culture religious cathedrals: malls.

 

[gord44]

That statement makes it sound like since it doesn't affect you that you don't care.

Must we care about everything?

 

[Arthra]

A lot of retail business get a boost around Christmas time... of course we had a Toy and Book Store but we were able to get time off for Baha'i Holy Days. Had we been located in Iran well you know what would happen to us.

 

[Ran77]

And there are some who think there is a war on Christmas if Starbucks leaves the snowmen off their green and red coffee cups.

To steal a famous quote: "Why can't we all just get along?"

 

[Ran77]

I work in retail. I hate everything about Christmas and how it's celebrated in the new consumer-culture religious cathedrals: malls.

I admit that the commercial exploitation of Christmas has made it a holiday that I now dread rather than enjoy. Too much Santa and stress over giving gifts and not enough focus on what it really represents.

 

[Ran77]

Must we care about everything?

You don't have to care about anything at all. As for myself, it is part of my nature to care about the mistreatment of others.

 

[drstevej]

I admit that the commercial exploitation of Christmas has made it a holiday that I now dread rather than enjoy. Too much Santa and stress over giving gifts and not enough focus on what it really represents.

Our family is celebrating Christmas at Thanksgiving. How cool is that!

 

[gord44]

You don't have to care about anything at all. As for myself, it is part of my nature to care about the mistreatment of others.

To each their own old chap!